{"id":630779,"date":"2026-02-28T18:45:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630779\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T18:45:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T18:45:30","slug":"is-deni-avdija-playing-today-blazers-vs-hornets-injury-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/630779\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Deni Avdija playing today? Blazers vs. Hornets injury report"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the second installment of a five-game road trip, the Portland Trail Blazers<\/a> travel to the East Coast to take on the struggling Charlotte Hornets<\/a> on Saturday afternoon. Forward Deni Avdija, who has only played one full game<\/a> since the All-Star break, headlines the injury report. Here is everything we know about Deni Avdija’s injury and his playing status against the Hornets.<\/p>\n

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Deni Avdija injury status vs. Hornets\"PortlandDaniel Kucin Jr.-Imagn Images<\/p>\n

After a rock-solid start to the 2025-2026 season, Avdija has been slowed by injuries over the last month. Avdija is currently being slowed by a back injury that forced him out in the first minute of the Blazers’ Sunday night game against the Phoenix Suns.<\/p>\n

Avdija has yet to return to the court since then, missing Portland’s last two games. He is listed as doubtful on Saturday and expected to miss his third straight contest.<\/p>\n

Interim head coach Tiago Splitter<\/a> has turned to Kris Murray in Avdija’s absence. Murray enters Saturday’s game off consecutive double-digit efforts and is slated to receive his 14th start of the season against the Hornets. He will join Jrue Holiday, Toumani Camara, Jerami Grant and Donovan Clingan in the Blazers’ starting lineup.<\/p>\n

Clingan is listed as questionable after missing the Blazers’ last game with an illness. If he misses another game, expect Scoot Henderson to remain in the opening lineup.<\/p>\n

Holiday and Grant have picked up the scoring slack in Avdija’s absence, with Henderson absorbing additional minutes off the bench. Holiday is currently on his best stretch of the season, averaging 18.0 points, 4.5 rebounds and 5.5 assists in February.<\/p>\n

With Avdija trending toward missing another game, expect the same Blazers team that just collected a 121-112 win over the Chicago Bulls on Thursday to face the Hornets.<\/p>\n

Blazers injury report<\/p>\n

Deni Avdija \u2014 Doubtful, Lower back injury management<\/p>\n

Sidy Cissoko \u2014 Questionable, Illness<\/p>\n

Donovan Clingan \u2014 Questionable, Illness<\/p>\n

Damian Lillard \u2014 OUT, Left Achilles tendon management<\/p>\n

Caleb Love \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n

Shaedon Sharpe \u2014 Left fibula stress reaction<\/p>\n

Hornets injury report<\/p>\n

Tosan Evbuomwan \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n

PJ Hall \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n

Liam McNeely \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n

Antonio Reeves \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n

Tidjane Salaun \u2014 OUT, G League<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the second installment of a five-game road trip, the Portland Trail Blazers travel to the East Coast…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199729,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3784],"tags":[7,601,473,980,6,14502,687,471,3967,1617],"class_list":{"0":"post-630779","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-portland-trail-blazers","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-blazers","10":"tag-charlotte-hornets","11":"tag-deni-avdija","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-injury","14":"tag-portland","15":"tag-portland-trail-blazers","16":"tag-portlandtrailblazers","17":"tag-trail-blazers"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116149744911292164","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=630779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/630779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=630779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=630779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=630779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}